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A Lovely Parting Gift - Mr. Panetta To Authorize Women For Combat Roles

The peace symbol (also known as the "footprint of the American chicken") has made its comeback, in case you hadn't noticed. One of our young relatives was wearing it on a necklace and I realized she knew nothing about its history. I told her gently how that symbol was once sported proudly by people looking much like today's "Occupiers" who spit on our troops returning from Vietnam. One could tell she was hurt as she removed it and it has not been seen since.
Now the children and students of those same people are filling the Democrat Party's ranks and the offices of the Obama Administration, making laws that govern both American businesses and our armed forces. They generally know nothing about either institution and I suggest they hold contempt for both.
Read below the consequences that happen from putting these people in charge of America's valued institutions. Peace, brothers.  TD

A Lovely Parting Gift - Mr. Panetta To Authorize Women For Combat Roles

... (He will lift) the military's ban on women serving in combat, a move that will allow women into hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando units, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.

...."6) I remember watching Restrepo and wondering how all the "grab-ass" and the like would work in a mixed unit.   I concluded it would probably go bad at some point."

It will not be simply letting women choose to be in a combat unit; it will come to requirements that certain numbers of women must be in a unit. I pity the poor commander of a unit that is under heavy combat stress when he now will have to be concerned about some sort of sexual discrimination charge.
I worry that excellent leaders will no longer choose the military because of all this.

From Blackfive; Needs Of The Service....

"I am most tired of being told that just because liberals say that women will be great warriors in the combat arms and that we should let them try.  Just saying it over and over does not mean it will be so.  I have watched them and lead them and I have seen how with only a few very notable exceptions, they are unable to carry the same loads that male soldiers carry, I have watched them struggle to do some of the most basic tasks that male soldiers have no problems completing.  I have seen them use their gender to avoid work and their plumbing to avoid deployment, and unfortunately for the women; the few bad apples taints the whole bushel when it comes to this career field."

Laughing Wolf disagrees with me  If these words were not in Blackfive, I would not take them seriously.

Even American Thinker writes of women now in combat, which is true enough. The big issue for me is not that women shouldn't be in harm's way, but how disruptive their presence will be in an actual combat unit such as a rifle platoon.
With the presence of  women and the openly gay in combat units, there is now a sexual element where it has no business being.
 However the article linked to does make some excellent points that go along with my own thoughts: 
"If criticism is to be made, it should be directed at why this is being done. Is it just one more example of using the military as a social science lab? Is the ban being lifted purely out of a perceived need for "gender equality? "Will the military lower it's qualification standards so that women can serve as special operators? They may eventually try it, but I doubt whether team members in the SEALs or other special op outfits would accept any female applicant who didn't have to endure what they did. "Those men depend on each other completely as their missions are the hairiest in the military. Not being able to implicitly trust a team member would vastly reduce the effectiveness of the team."

Allen West rips call for women in combat  He is a combat leader who should know and I respect him highly.
"He called the strategy a “social experiment” and said that given the challenges facing the country, now is not the time to try it.
" “Unless the Obama administration has not noticed, we are fighting against a brutal enemy and now is not the time to play a social experiment with our ground combat forces,” he wrote. “President Obama, as Commander-in-Chief, should be focused on sequestration and the failure of his policies in the Middle East. This is the misconceived liberal progressive vision of fairness and equality which could potentially lead to the demise of our military.” "

If this story was a fictional TV movie, Basilone would be a gorgeous woman: 
 

Update on the Wizard of Oz

Warning Signs

This excerpt below is from a lengthy comment to Mr. Caruba by Ronbo who blogs at Freedom Fighter's Journal. The comment is excerpted from this post at the FFJ:

As I said way back in 2008, when Obama was elected president for the first time, that the America we knew would disappear while he was president.
...And it's going, going, GOING... 

What Difference?

Victor Davis Hanson   "Secretary Clinton did not mean to show indifference, but her rhetorical question was one of the low points in her long career, one that might pass without too much fanfare at the moment but will reverberate a lot in the future.
"Yet today’s testimony in some sense does not matter, given that Ms. Clinton is probably going to run in 2016 for president, and has enjoyed a protective media veneer over her long career — shed only once in 2008 when opposing Barack Obama."
...."Despite Hillarycare, Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, the cattle-futures mess, the circumstances surrounding the 2000 Clinton pardons, “suspension of disbelief,” etc., Ms. Clinton, for not fully explained reasons, remains mostly beyond audit and censure, a fact she has come to appreciate."

Clinton Makes Dubious Claim That Obama Called Benghazi Terror Attack on 9/12  "Doesn’t sound like the administration was calling it a terrorist attack that early in the game."

 

http://www.westernjournalism.com/benghazi-cover-up-2/

Clinton at the Benghazi Hearings today

GOP Congressman To Clinton: “The Only Person That’s In Jail Right Now Is The [Mohammed] Filmmaker”…

 

Picture of the Day  "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans."

White House defends Secretary of State Clinton on Benghazi  "The talking points – long a focus of conservatives skeptical of the administration’s changing explanation of the Benghazi attack  — were at the center of a heated exchange between Clinton and freshman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) during Wednesday’s Senate hearing."
 

Rand Paul tells Clinton she was culpable and should have been fired.   

Clinton claims she always knew the attacks were terrorism, but these reactions from Clinton and Obama refute that:
Clinton and Obama groveling over the Mohammad video

Barack Obama condemns 'slander' of the 'prophet' Muhammad at UN
Narrating this is Ezra Levant, who knows a thing or two standing up for free speech even when it makes the left quake from fear of radical Islamists.

 

Coulter: Ending gun violence requires commitment, not all of it voluntary

Ann Coulter  "The good news is: Obama and the Senate Democrats have no intention of passing more idiotic gun legislation in response to the Newtown massacre. The bad news is that they also have no intention of passing any legislation about the mentally ill, which would actually do something to reduce these mass shootings.
"Instead, the Democrats will jawbone about “assault weapons” and other meaningless gun laws for the sole purpose of scaring soccer moms into hating the National Rifle Association. Expect to hear a lot about Republicans preferring “the gun lobby” to “children.” (Which is evidently not at all like preferring the teachers lobby to children.)"
Hey, that was good! Let me say that again:

Expect to hear a lot about Republicans preferring “the gun lobby” to “children.” (Which is evidently not at all like preferring the teachers lobby to children.)"

 

Tort Reform: How to eat free at Bob Evans

The West Virginia Record via U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform
"When [the plaintiff] isn’t dining out, he seems to enjoy social media. He has two “favorites” on his personal Facebook page: a page for his company, Acey Renovations, and another page which seems dedicated to a certain part of the female anatomy.
Extenuating circumstances or not, if the hostess called Acey an idiot, she shouldn’t have. However, the fact remains that Acey was not satisfied by a manager’s apology or an offer of a free meal and is now suing for compensatory and punitive damages – for being called something that one could argue may not have been far from the mark."
Follow this site on Facebook also. 

More on silly suits at this site: Never a shortage of ridiculous lawsuits in U.S. courts  "But sometimes even dismissals can pay off for trial lawyers. After a California judge found a class-action claim against Volkswagen meritless, plaintiffs' attorneys tweaked the complaint. Weary of the court battle, VW finally settled. The attorneys received about $500,000 in fees, the plaintiffs received zilch. What a system."  Follow the money.

Gun Logic in Liberalville

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2013/01/23/106605

 

The Left's new campaign to destroy a friend of Israel

I'm always skeptical of online petitions, but respect Ms. Glick and feel her words should be heeded by all who should support Israel. If nothing else, it will put signers on record as supporting Rep. Bachman.
Caroline Glick  "Today as Obama officially enters his second term in office, Israel enters a period unlike any it has experienced before. It will face a hostile US president who does not fear the voters. Moreover, it faces a US president who is so hostile to Israel that his first serious act after his reelection was to appoint Chuck Hagel Defense Secretary, (and John Brennan CIA Director)."

"As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a contender in the Republican presidential primaries, Bachmann has been one of Israel's most passionate and articulate defenders and one of Obama's most effective critics on everything from federal spending to Obama's abandonment of the US-Israel alliance to his opening of the US federal government and intelligence apparatuses to members of the Muslim Brotherhood - that is to members of a movement dedicated to the destruction of the American way of life. 

"For her efforts, Rep. Bachmann has been the target of repeated media smear campaigns, often joined by skittish Republicans like John McCain who failed to recognize the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise in Libya and Egypt, and failed to understand the danger that the penetration of the US federal government by Muslim Brotherhood members constitutes to US national security."
 

The petition here. Bear in mind this will get you on a mailing list with a plea for donations.

Rapper Kicked Off Stage for Anti-Obama Lyrics at Inaugural Event

Lupe Fiasco, a Grammy-nominated rapper was reportedly kicked off stage at Sunday night’s inaugural event in Washington, D.C.  (Content Warning: Language)
 

NPR has this. Bear in mind that when incidents such as this happen, it is only because the performer thinks Obama is not far enough to the left for his taste; not because he is conservative. No no.  After all, Mr. Fiasco's real name is Wasalu Muhammad Jaco.

Obama and his lap-dog media

Rick Moran;  Bizarre Example of Obama Worship in the Media "I can’t recall in 45 years of media watching ever coming across anything as corrupting to professional journalism as this. He actually expected the president — the man he is paid to cover according to the ethics and standards (a stretch with CNN, I know) of professional journalism — to call and chat him up on an informal and friendly basis. It’s hard to pick what’s more bizarre — his belief that his pitiful missives actually stimulated the thinking of the president of the United States, or that he could entertain the idea of developing a personal relationship with Barack Obama."

CBS News Political Director: 'Pulverize GOP' Objective 'Analysis'  "I honestly believe that one of the Lefts' primary tactics is to endlessly exhaust us with this kind of relentless tactical nonsense.

"If Dickerson was indeed writing analysis, he did an awfully good job of disguising it as naked advocacy. Here are the opening paragraphs of Dickerson's original piece. Please tell me at which point this Obama cheer-leading distinguishes itself as anything nearing objective analysis: "....

But wait! There's more! Dickerson Doubles Down On Obama Destroying GOP

  

Giddy CNN Correspondent Feels He Needs to Pinch Himself at Obama's Second Inaugural Parade

CNN Hosts Wave to Obama Like Groupies  And you actually expect these people to ask Obama hard questions at press interviews?

Rush covers it best of all: The Media Has Never Been So Happy;  "They were fawning over Obama.  There's no pretense these people are journalists anymore."
 

Obama Speech Ignores Failed Economy; Media Gushes Anyway   "If you were dumb enough to get your news only from the mainstream media, you would think that economic times are so flush today, the American president can afford to squander his second term socially re-engineering America. "

From our Dream-On file: Obama's Greatest Legacy Might Be Destroying the Media  "The media might think they're partners with Barack Obama, but in reality they're his cannon fodder. Obama uses, lies to, dismisses, and openly mocks the media. Still, like bug-eating Renfelds diseased by The Master's influence, they live only to serve. But The Master can't save them, and his open contempt for them means he won't even try."

Let's call Letterman "the press" because that is where many low-information voters get their news and commentary.

Bibi defeats Obama (barely)

      Terrell AfterMath and also here: The Old Jarhead

Legal Insurrection  "Obama supporters accused Bibi of siding with Romney, although there’s nothing they can point to to prove it.
"As “payback,” Obama tried to interfere in Israel’s election by chiding Israelis that they (i.e., Bibi) don’t know what’s in their best interests, and making sure such comments made their way to the press on the eve of the election."

“Listening to Netanyahu was like listening to our collective conscience trying to remind us of who we really are.”  "For now, I’ll quote reader Deborah who e-mailed me as follows:"

As I listened to the live broadcast of Bibi Netanyahu’s speech, I thought to myself that HE’s reminding us of who we are. We’re NOT the moral relativists and effete European socialists that the current administration wants us to be. Listening to Netanyahu was like listening to our collective conscience trying to remind us of who we really are.